re: LA legislature denies Independent nurse practice

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There is a wide swath of diagnostic and basic medicine that isn't really being performed as often as it should be performed.

Doctors today seem like they're completely slammed.

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better to just let folks with less than 10% of the training/education hours act independently as a physician then huh?

what we don't need is a bunch of undertrained people shooting from the hip regarding tests and medicine. There is also such a thing as over and unnecessary tests/treating. knowing when to use, and how to interpret those tests and medicine is important if you're going to be practicing medicine independently. Those things are part of that foundational knowledge and training gap I keep referring to.

Instead of lowering standards of practice you should consider support for increasing residency opportunities and funding so that we can train more doctors